Sermon Tone Analysis

The Fellowship of the Forgiven.

What does it mean for us who are forgiven to walk in fellowship with the one who forgave?

We continue to desire to move on to maturity.

We want to be a people at Bridge of Faith who begin to pursue the will of God in our lives.

We want to be a people that daily ask God what is your will and what do you desire.

As we seek to discover the will of God for our lives, we then want to change the way we live our lives to fit his will in our lives.

If you came to Christ and you say nothing changed in my life, then I am not sure you really encountered Christ.

If you have been the master of your life until you encountered Jesus and then encounter Jesus and get a new master, then everything in your life begins to change.

Anyone ever had a roommate?

I have had several roommates in my lifetime.

My current roommate is by far the best roommate I have ever had!

My brother was my roommate growing up.

I will never forget one night when my appendix was about to burst and my brother who is 4 years older than me ran and got the vaporizor and said just breathe this.

I was leaned over and enhaling that thing for all it was worth.

That didn’t work and ended up getting my appendix removed.

My brother and I grew up adjusting to each other as we were roommates.

Then I went to college and everything I was accustomed to in a roommate changed.

I got a baseball roommate that loved chat rooms and so we had to adjust to that.

I had other roommates that liked to party on the weekend and I have woke up to hangover people in my restroom and chewed them out and kicked them out.

My last roommate before Amy was a dairy farmer and so we had to make adjustments.

I then met my current roommate and we got married and then moved in together.

Notice the order of events we got married first then moved in together.

That was extra.

We had to learn each other.

I had a terrible habit of telling her.

My mom would do it like this.

Here is how my mom did it.

My mom would buy this.

I remember one day she looked at me and said I am not your mother and if you want to go live with her then that’s fine.

You know what happened?

I changed.

In a very small sense, When Jesus becomes the Lord of your life it is like getting accustomed to a new roommate.

You have to make changes.

The difference is that when you encounter Jesus everything changes.

Relationships change, behaviors change, responses change.

Everything changes when Jesus is the master of your life.

Jesus has forgiven you of sin.

Now, our desire as the forgiven to fellowship with the one who has forgiven.

1 John 2:15-

Christian people have entered into a great inheritance in the forgiveness of sins, fellowship with God and the conquest of the evil one, but their temptations have not come to an end.

Stott, J. R. W. (1988).

The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary (Vol.

19, p. 102).

Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

This morning you may look across the room and wonder why the person the isle over from you is able to have victory over their sin unlike you did this week, then know this that until Jesus returns or calls us home temptations have not come to an end.

World: the life of human society as organized under the power of evil

the life of human society as organized under the power of evil

Stott, J. R. W. (1988).

The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary (Vol.

19, p. 102).

Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

To walk in fellowship with God he gives us this do not and in this do not he says do not love the World.

He is not talking about the things that God had created for his Glory and purposes.

Here he is talking about the life of human society that is organized under the power of evil.

This idea that you were made for you, bring pleasure to yourself, be smarter than everyone, have more success, it’s all about you so go enjoy.

He says do not love the world or the things that belong to the world.

It is not possible to love the world and love God.

If you love the world then the love for the Father does not exist.

Matthew 6:24

I think of a child who’s parents are not on the same page when it comes to raising the children.

The child seeks to please one parent but not the other.

Side note if this is your parenting then you are not really parenting because you are not on the same page.

The child tries to please one parent but the other one is upset.

If you love the World then the Love of the father is not in you.

He gives some explanation about that World he says everything that belongs to the world.

The lust of the flesh:

I can have what I want when I want it, the way I want it.

I can indulge my flesh in what I want for my own pleasure and if it benefits me then it is right.

There are times I come to a stop sign and I stop or a yield sign and I yield when I am driving and I think to myself I wonder if that person is thankful that I actually yielded to them like I was supposed to.

lol

Nonsense, the law says I yield and I should not get rewarded for doing the thing that is right to do but the lust of the flesh is that everyone owes me and I am right about everything and the world moves and revolves about my likes and dislikes.

These things we as Christ followers are not to love.

The lust of his eyes:

The things we see with our eyes.

This can be but not limited too possessions, objects, food, and other people.

These temptations seem to be things that are on the outside.

I love this

It will include ‘the love of beauty divorced from the love of goodness’ (Law)

Stott, J. R. W. (1988).

The Letters of John: An Introduction and Commentary (Vol.

19, p. 104).

Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

This sums up the lust of the eyes.

The love of beauty divorced from the love of goodness.

When you lust you are not thinking about goodness all you are thinking about is beauty.

The pride in one’s lifestyle:

This is the boasting of what one has, what one has done and what one is.

I am convinced the older you get the more difficult this becomes.

I have lived and I know what I have, what I have done and who I am.

Everyone around me does not have a clue but you can tell that I have it all figured out.

I know what is best and no one is going to tell me how to live.

This type of life is not from the Father but is from the World.

It is not of God.

Again this calls for a change and a reodering of life

The world with its lust is passing away.

Look around and see that this is fading and is doomed for destruction.

Those who live this way will fade just like the world as well.

The person who will remain is

The one who does God’s will.

Those who do the will of God are eternal.